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Área de la Ciencia:

  • Biología evolutiva Biología evolutiva.
  • Ecología del comportamiento ecología del comportamiento.
  • Socialidad de los insectos.

Sus antecedentes:

  • El apareamiento múltiple (poliandría) es frecuente en los insectos, pero sus impulsores evolutivos y factores de mantenimiento siguen siendo difíciles de cuantificar.
  • Comparar especies estrechamente relacionadas con diferentes estilos de vida puede iluminar los costos y beneficios de la poliandria.

Objetivo del estudio:

  • Investigar las estrategias de apareamiento de la hormiga cortadora de hojas (Acromyrmex echinatior) y su parásito social (Acromyrmex insinuator).
  • Para entender las presiones evolutivas que influyen en la poliandria en las hormigas mediante la comparación de una especie de vida libre con su pariente parásito social.

Principales métodos:

  • Análisis comparativo de los comportamientos de apareamiento entre Acromyrmex echinatior y Acromyrmex insinuator.
  • Observación y documentación de las frecuencias de apareamiento en especies de hormigas anfitrionas y parásitas.

Principales resultados:

  • Las reinas Acromyrmex echinatior exhiben poliandria, apareándose con hasta una docena de machos.
  • Las reinas insinuadoras del Acromyrmex, el parásito social, se involucran exclusivamente en el apareamiento individual.
  • En el parásito social se observó un rápido cambio de la poliandria al apareamiento único.

Conclusiones:

  • Los costos asociados con la poliandría parecen ser específicos de una estrategia ecológica de vida libre.
  • El parasitismo social puede conducir a rápidos cambios evolutivos en el comportamiento de apareamiento, como el abandono de la poliandria.